The negotiations at the climate summit in Baku have been unusually tough and positions unusually locked. The countries affected by extreme weather have wanted 1,300 billion dollars a year from the rich part of the world to be able to reduce their emissions and adapt to a warmer climate. Now, in the last trembling hours, the sum instead seems to land at 300 billion dollars per year. Some tougher writings about how to phase out coal, oil and gas are not currently on the agenda either. The minister reacts A major problem is said to be that the Arab group and specifically Saudi Arabia have a very close contact with the Azerbaijani chairman. – You can say that he listens a lot to Saudi Arabia and excludes many other groups, not least the EU and the demands that we bring. So we feel pretty ignored right now and quite horrified at how the negotiations are going, says Sweden’s Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari (L). Leaks There have also been leaks that one of Saudi Arabia’s officials has gone into a pdf file and changed the document himself. – Such levels of lack of professionalism at a UN negotiation are completely unacceptable and of course it makes everyone feel a very lack of confidence in how these negotiations are going right now, says Romina Pourmokhtari. According to the planning, the chairman is to call a last big meeting tonight, before all countries have to take a position on the text of the agreement and it can possibly be clubbed.
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